Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.

It's not enough just to treat women well. We have to work to make sure all men treat women well.

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.

My wife holds the kite strings that let me go 'weeeeeee', then she reels me back in.

I've had really great experiences working with first-time directors. They come at filmmaking with fresh ideas. I've been very lucky that way.

Everyone I meet is in my sangha. I don't know if that's the proper definition, but that's the way I'm going to hold it in my mind.

You've got to take care of yourself on the path, not just when you cross the goal line, because don't forget, wherever you are, that's the goal line.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother.

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

I'm very bad, but I like to dance.

Football is one-third offense, one-third defense, and one-third special teams.

The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords If when the soul unto the lines accords.

It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.

When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.

It's risky to talk about one's most secret dreams a bit too early.

It's still pretty surreal. I wake up every day and just pinch myself and kind of think about how far I've come and all the stuff I have done.